Monday 29 March 2021

Authentic Living - Episode 13

Throughout history, good members of any society have had similar characteristics to each other.

Throughout history, too, bad members of any society have also had similar characteristics to each other.

What, if any, have been your personal contributions to intellectual history and art history?

Perhaps you do not associate intellectualism with history or authenticity or art. 

How have you responded to the first twelve episodes in this series, and why?

Perhaps you do not regard them as episodes at all, at least from a media point of view.

Perhaps you do not regard authenticity as dramatic or otherwise unusual.

How do you usually reflect upon the episodes of your life?

What do you know about the history of Frugality Cottage?

What more would you like to know about Frugality Cottage, and why?

How much satisfaction or dissatisfaction do you usually acquire through frugality?

Perhaps you have missed one or more of the earlier episodes in this series and therefore feel the need to catch up.

You are probably aware that each new episode appears here each Monday morning at 7 o'clock, local time.

The first four episodes appeared in January 2021: 

 

 

For quite some time now, additional notes to assist your understanding of this series have been appearing in the library of this virtual cottage each Monday afternoon at around 3 o'clock.

Various online workshops take place in and around the cottage, as necessary.

Even if you have a personal preference for reproductions of authentic works of art, at least in terms of your budget, you may wish to know the provenance of the original.

Perhaps you usually associate authenticity with originality.

If you are finding the questions here to be quite overwhelming, you are unlikely to have paid adequate attention to the episodes presented here in February 2021:

 

 

This month has already seen four new episodes appear here on the noticeboard:

 

 

There are likely to be new episodes appearing here at least for another couple of months.

There is much to explore in relation to authentic living.

Perhaps you associate authenticity with rock music or with something else entirely.